Visionary Leader, Entrepreneur, Life & Leadership Coach and non-profit Board Member with 20+ years experience starting, building and operating businesses.

Adam has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry, in engineering, executive management and as an entrepreneur. 
Adam is co-founder and senior vice president of engineering at Centrify, where he oversees all engineering activities. Under his leadership, Centrify has built an award-winning suite of security solutions.

Adam Wu is currently an engineering leader in Facebook's Reality Labs. He is a seasoned Silicon Valley technologist and investor with 2 decades of high tech experience.

Alan Fisher is a serial entrepreneur and technology investor. Most recently, he was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Iron Speed, Inc., a developer of enterprise-class application development tools.

PhD from California Institute of Technology in EE (Power Electronics). Active member of Sand Hill Angels. Investor, startup adviser. Senior Member of IEEE. More than 50 US patents awarded, more than 50 additional US and International patents are filed and pending. Multiple publications.

Baoning (Kenny) Fan is an angel investor with a focus on Internet, Big Data, Alternative Energy, and Life Science.

Ben Lee is CEO of mCube, Inc. He has over 20 years of senior management experience in the semiconductor industry, with more than 10 years serving as an expat in Asia (Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai). Ben is especially interested in innovative IoT solution companies that can benefit from mCube’s world’s smallest MEMS inertial motion sensors. Prior to mCube, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Prior to Cypress, he served in senior management roles at Trident Microsystems, Apexone Microelectronics, Altera Corporation, National Semiconductor Corporation and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. Ben began his career as a System Integration Engineer at IBM’s Federal Systems Division in New York. He holds a BSEE from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a MBA from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. Mr. Lee serves on the Industry Advisory Board for Cal Poly Electrical Engineering and is a Board Director of Ten Degrees, Inc.

Bill is currently a VP of Operations of InMoment, a customer experience management solutions company. He also has his own consulting firm that provides Strategic Growth Advisory work to C-Level executives.

Finance/Operations executive with experience on both the company and investment side. I do Corp Dev roles for big companies, and CFO/COO roles for smaller companies.
Currently investing in and advising emerging companies, and thinking about all things entrepreneurial.
Specialties: Growing young companies, venture capital, corporate development, M&A, strategy, infrastructure, finance.

Wilco Management; McDonald’s Restaurant Owner & Operator

https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-harding-1348817/

Track record building/mentoring teams, transforming marketing requirements into products. One of first software team members at six startups. Member of Sand Hill Angels

David Sacarelos is a certified public accountant with over twenty years of accounting experience. He is a partner at Seiler LLP, where he advises closely held companies and high net worth individual and families. He provides tax and business planning services for entrepreneurial and emerging growth companies, real estate companies, investment partnerships, manufacturers and professional service organizations.

Doug is a networking industry veteran with over 15 years of marketing and business development experience and 14 years in venture capital management. He has broad knowledge and investment experience in the data networking, multimedia, and Internet Infrastructure area.

Experienced professional with expertise in innovation, business development, M&A, technology, restructuring and organizational change. 

Works as board member in several companies, especially focusing in transformation processes due to technology innovation and accelerated growth. Active startup investor, serving both as advisor for several startups and as advisor for investors interested in this kind of asset. Portfolio of invested companies comprised of 25+ companies in Brasil and in the US, mostly in digital technology. In several of these companies, Eduardo was the lead investor and serves as the main advisor for the startups.

Also acted as general manager in various positions in the media industry, always involved in transformational processes, such as digital transformation, development of new business initiatives, high growth business units, cultural change and restructuring.

Bachelor in Computer Sciences from Universidade Federal do Rio Grange do Sul and MBA from Stanford University.

Francis daCosta is CTO/founder of MeshDynamics. Meshdynamics provides software for mission critical wireless mesh networks.

Frank Willemsen has over 20 years of experience in the high technology industry, in Sales and Business Development, executive leadership positions.

Gary Kremen is an American engineer, entrepreneur and public servant who invented[citation needed] online dating, founded the personals site Match.com, was the first registrant of Sex.com and founder of Clean Power Finance, and is a board member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Since 1993, Kremen has been a private and angel investor in over 100 companies (individually or through venture capital funds), of which several have gone public or had liquidity events.

As the leader of Tri-Valley Orthopedic Specialists’ hand surgery team, Dr. Horner treats conditions affecting the bones, muscles, nerves and tendons of the hand, wrist and arm up to and including the shoulder. He performs arthroscopy and micro-vascular surgery for a wide range of problems, including fracture care, congenital disorders in infants, work injuries, carpal tunnel problems in adults, and sports-related injuries for all ages.

Gregg is an active, NY-based venture investor and founder of Evolution Corporate Advisors (www.evolutionadvisorsllc.com) and has investments in more than 25 private companies.  He is also the Chief Innovation Officer of Edison Nation (www.edisonnation.com), an open innovation community of innovators.  Prior to this, he spent ~20 years on Wall Street and was formerly Managing Director and Head of the Private Equity Group at Cowen & Co., and previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Private Equity Placements Group and began his career at Bear Stearns. Gregg has completed in excess of 120 equity private placement and other corporate finance transactions totaling more than $5 billion in proceeds. He is currently a board member and/or advisor to several venture stage companies, including Honcker, Inc.

Heike Schmitz is an angel investor with a portfolio mostly in high tech, including healthcare, IT, clean-tech and even a restaurant. She is currently looking into entrepreneurial opportunities in the marine space. She is also involved in philanthropy supporting local and global environmental and community related organizations.

In the early years of her career, Heike worked as a management consultant, analyst, and programmer for several Swiss companies. After moving to the US and taking some family time off, she first gained experience in Silicon Valley as a quality assurance engineer with a small startup. Heike was subsequently hired into the Google engineering team, where she eventually developed and led their first testing services teams, an organization of then over 300 people. As senior engineering manager, she was later involved in the preparations for the IPO, including preparation for Sarbanes–Oxley compliance. Heike left Google in 2006.

Heike is a citizen of the United States and of Germany with a special place on her heart for Switzerland, the land she grew up in. Here she studied Computer Science at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Additionally, in 2014, she graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Marine Biology.

Design and development of scalable software targeting the web, mobile, and, desktop user.Specialized in various aspects of software engineering ranging from requirements gathering to quality assurance and testing.

Hugo coordinates Sand Hill Angels RAW.

Jack was President and CEO of Tensilica since 2008 leading a successful turn-around culminating with the sale of Tensilica to Cadence in Apr 2013. 

James Wong is an angel investor with interests in Big Data, Machine Learning, Fintech, and Life Sciences. He has extensive software and machine learning industry experience across Facebook, Airbnb, and Expedia and holds multiple machine learning patents. He also has been involved in a few startup ventures. James holds Bachelor's degrees in Bioengineering and Computer Science from the University of Washington and is expecting a Master's degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Jeff is a serial entrepreneur and GE-trained leader with a keen eye for emerging markets and technology trends. The first half of Jeff’s career was starting businesses, leading turn-arounds and/or building market share for divisions of General Electric and General Motors. The second half of Jeff’s career has been focused on building new businesses and market opportunities as an entrepreneur.

Experienced Private Investor with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry. Skilled in cross-border investment and business development. Strong entrepreneurship professional graduated from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Jo-ning Ta has over 25 years of executive leadership experience in managing and developing software from large-scale, high performance distributed systems, middleware to applications and embedded devices in areas of Internet, mobile, enterprise, and telecom in leading start-ups and large corporations. 

Investor, advisor, serial entrepreneur, business leader, experience across multiple disciplines: product (vision & execution), customer, administration, marketing (PR/AR), etc.

John Hall has more than 21 years of experience in the venture capital industry.

Jonathan is an industry recognized leader in the field of Information Management, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with over twenty years of management, business advisory and systems consulting experience. He is President of NAVinture, a technology firm providing services and solutions that help businesses navigate with information through the use of advanced analytics, closed loop and actionable Business Intelligence technologies.

Julie Willey enjoys shipping products that delight and inspire. She has close to 20 years of engineering experience.

Karen has spent nearly 20 years working at the intersection of people and technology. She currently manages Infinite Community Ventures, a social venture fund to build and strengthen communities through Sustainability, Equitable Empowerment, and the Arts, using vehicles along the investing-philanthropy spectrum. As an advocate for women and BIPOC in leadership and STEM, she is frequently engaged as a speaker, workshop leader, advisor, fundraiser, and volunteer for community-focused organizations.

Karyn Woodsum runs Finance and Bookkeeping for Sand Hill Angels.

Kate Allison runs Operations, Screening and Membership for Sand Hill Angels. She has been with the group since 2013.

Kathy has years of expertise and experience in entrepreneurship and startup in various industries including IoT, marketplace, services, fashion, and diversity and inclusion.

Ken is an active individual investor and a technology professional.  Ken was an early, pre-IPO employee of Cisco Systems and has spent the most of his career there, as a technology professional and manager. Ken's expertise is in Enterprise software and networking. He is interested learning about emerging technologies and participating in the local angel investing community, which he has been doing on his own for the last decade. 

Kumar is the founder & CEO @ Dexati a Mobile Photography apps company which is fairly popular on Android with about 300 Million downloads (If Social networks like Instagram are excluded they are the largest Mobile Photography company on either platforms) and growing over 100 % year over year. He started this as a side project and grew into 30 people today while staying profitable every month since company formation. Before that he was Software Architect at Autodesk and Sunrun. He is also a spec member for multiple JSRs (Java Specification Requests).

Laura has a thorough understanding of the engineering development process (functional specification, system/architecture design, development, testing, and deployment) based on ten years of software/firmware development experience. Effective Program Management skills based on hands-on engineering experience allowing for identification and mitigation of risks early in the product life-cycle.

Enjoy building products that people love to use! Specialties: Identifying great product ideas andcreating a strong engineering team to build them.

Leung Kwok has been in financial services for 30 years most of it with General Electric Capital Corp. 25 of those years were in Asia covering Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and about half the time in China. During this time, I deployed about $3bn and recovered about $5bn. The products were Private Equity, High Yield Lending, Project Finance and Distressed Debt. Over the years, I’ve examined thousands of companies and projects in need of capital and provided capital to a hundred or so. As a result, I’ve seen many successes and failures - attributable to a variety of operational, market and other reasons. While these were all growing or mature companies and not start-ups, I hope to leverage this experience in SHA.

Manjit started out his career with a Master of Technology, Computer Science, from the University of Hyderabad, India. He then served many years as a senior software product executive with expertise in cloud computing, mobile commerce, mobile gaming, messaging platforms and system management.

Manthi Nguyen has over twenty five years of diverse experience in all functions of managing and growing businesses with capital efficiency and operational effectiveness in a wide range of industries: real-time control systems, telecommunications and networking, Internet services, publishing, heath and fitness, and manufacturing. In the early part of her career, Manthi joined General Motors Advanced Manufacturing Research in developing technologies for office and factory automation. She participated in developing international standards for Open System Interconnect with National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). Manthi was involved in a series of early startup developing routing and networking technologies that were later acquired by NEC, Cabletron, Tut Systems, and Cisco. In the last 10 years, Manthi has brought her executive experience to focus on small businesses. Manthi Nguyen received her BSEE from University of Washington, and her MBA from University of Michigan.

I am an entrepreneur with a background as a computer scientist, software engineer, and business manager. After leaving the Stanford Ph.D. program, I founded, grew, and sold CodeSourcery, a software development tools business. CodeSourcery was acquired by Mentor Graphics, where I managed a business unit of approximately 150 people. I was responsible for product management, marketing, and engineering for open-source technologies. I championed the acquisition of the automotive software business unit from MontaVista software and was an active participant in strategic planning for the Embedded Software Division.

I am fascinated by technology, business, technology in business, and the business of technology.

Ex Director of Twitter University. Previously co-founded Marakana (acquired by Twitter). BoD andinvestor at Sand Hill Angels. Spartan. 26.2

Mohammad is an engineer turned entrepreneur turned technology investor with over 23 years of experience in the technology and tech investment space.

Naeem Raza is ex CEO of Annams Systems Corporation/Sunflower Systems that he founded in 1992 and was sold to a public company in 2019. 

Ning Sung is the President of International Computer Technology. Being a technologist with a strong business emphasis, he has been involved with emerging technologies, consulting, and playing a pivotal role in the business establishments between the United States, Japan, and China. His company is a systems integrator partnering with major companies in Japan, Hitachi, NEC, Fujitsu, Softbank, and many others, to provide consulting for the clients on how hi-tech products are being used; as well as the strategic use of development tools from America. He constantly travels to Japan to meet with partners and end-users, as well as providing presentations on the research projects from major companies. He has also been constantly involved in the M&A of companies as well as investments activities in the three countries. Before he started this company, he was working for National Advanced System with a deep understanding of the IBM Mainframe Operating systems, and Tandem Computers in the AI development. Mr. Sung is fluent in Japanese, English, and Chinese. Born in Hong Kong, raised in Japan, obtain his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Santa Clara.

My most important job is as a Dad, which I always list to keep focus at top of mind, and for accountability. Professionally, I’m an investor in Mexican real estate and an angel investor and serial advisor in tech. In my day job, after 9 years at Google I now lead a security department for world's fastest growing network, TikTok.

Paul Swartz has over thirty years experience in the software and electronics industry. Early in his career he worked at Bell Laboratories where he developed software to verify the design of integrated circuits.

Peter Carson is a Senior Executive with a proven record of achievement in building and managing high growth businesses for SaaS software and Telecommunications Hardware and Services.

Phil has gained deep global leadership experience in private equity as both a General Partner (GP) and a Limited Partner (LP) over the past 12 years.

Rajeev Rai, CEO of QASource, has been widely recognized for well over 20 years as an expert in building, managing and retaining high-performing engineering teams.

Reinhard is an executive with a profound technical background in photonics, semi, tele/datacom, life science and automotive lighting. He is author/co-author of more than 150 scientific publications, member of EOS, Senior Member of OSA, SPIE Fellow, and serves as expert for Innosuisse, the Swiss innovation agency. His principal interest is in supporting innovative startup and scaleup companies. Reinhard holds a diploma and a PhD in Physics from the university of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany.

Rick Lazansky, vice president of product development for Xpedion Design Systems, designing and building RFIC design and analysis tools for the wireless and highest-speed semiconductor industry.  He joined Xpedion in late 2001, helped raise capital from Menlo Ventures and Telesoft, and has led product development out of chaos and into 45 of the top 50 RFIC companies, including Qualcomm, Skyworks, and TI.

Commonsense Guy with Deep Technical Expertise, Good Business Acumen and Great Interpersonal and Leadership Skill

Dr. Ryan Kennedy: SVP.

He has over 25 years of insurance background.  He is a published author and speaker on many facets of the insurance industry.

He has been a political advisor on insurance related issues for a number of prominent state and federal officials.  Ryan has been an instructor for the Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania's CEBS Program as well as CPA and Attorney Accreditation programs.   He has been an advisor to the Harvard School of Public Health as well as several legislators.

Srini Srinivasan has over 25 years of experience in developing and managing early stage technologies, startups, and advanced engineering projects in a wide variety of roles: customer development and support, product management, marketing, sales, engineering, finance and general management. His experience spans diverse domains of data analytics, advanced materials, Internet, devices, networks, control systems, consumer and financial markets. While incubating a business intelligence venture, he is consulting for the Advanced Technology Labs of Lockheed Martin in computational materials and serving as an advisor for various other bay area startups. Previously, he was the founder of EASI, which provided analytics products for wireless networks and embedded real-time systems. He was the founding CEO of TimeSys, a leader in the embedded Linux market with applications in industrial automation, telecommunications, networking, consumer devices, aerospace and defense. Earlier in his engineering career, for Westinghouse Electric, he co-led an engineering team that delivered an automated online tester for the world’s first digital safety system for a nuclear power plant. Srini holds an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Masters and Bachelors of Engineering respectively from the University of Houston and the IIT Madras in India.

Steve Bennet is founder and managing director of Bodega Partners and is an active participant in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem as start-up CFO, Angel Investor, and Professor.

Steve's background is mostly in marketing and strategy for high tech companies. Part of his career was in strategy consulting (McKinsey and Accenture) for global high tech and communications clients. The other portion was as lead marketer for companies such as McCaw Cellular Communications and NextWave Broadband. He has worked in a range of industries including cellular telephones, broadband data, satellite data, cloud telephony, software as a service, and cloud services. For the past 12 years he has worked in startups in a range of roles - including entrepreneur, CEO, board member, advisor, and angel investor. Steve holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tao spent a decade at Facebook as an engineer and manager building out its mobile, search, and ads products.

Tim Kelly is the CFO of Sand Hill Angels

Todd is an experienced cross-functional operator, active angel investor, and non-profit board member. He has been successful in product management across the full product life cycle, running multi-million dollar marketing budgets, and sales readiness preparation in both large company and start-up environments. In his current role as a Product Management leader at SoFi, he is responsible for driving disruptive, customer-centric innovation in the financial technology/ financial services space. Todd has a generalist investment thesis but has an affinity for FinTech, B2B SaaS, BioTech, the ownership economy, the distribution of cultural assets, and the facilitation of social interactions on and off line. He also spends a lot of his “free” time investing in the future through his volunteer work with Minds Matter SF where he helps high performing, under-represented high school students reach their full potential through education and exposure.

Vicken Ekmekjian is a senior portfolio and relationship manager with CIBC Private Wealth Management’s San Francisco office, with 19 years of industry experience.

In this role, he is responsible for providing wealth counseling services to a broad base of high net worth private clients, foundations and endowments through the implementation of tailored wealth management and investment solutions. He is also a member of CIBC Private Wealth Management’s Asset Allocation Committee, which sets the firm’s target asset allocation recommendations.

Victor is the global head of finance at Imaginable Futures. He oversees finance and accounting for the firm.

Wei has BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Harbin Engineering University and the Northern China Technology Institute. Wei has also become a successful Bay area real estate investor and broker/manager with a strong offshore Chinese client base.